Politicians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban...
July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today...
View ArticleProminent Australians’ open letter warns NAIF board against giving $1 billion...
August 10, 2017: Leaders from Australian business, industry, and academia have published an open letter in The Australian Financial Review calling for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility...
View ArticleMore secret deals at NAIF show ‘slush fund’ must be dissolved
August 11, 2017: The secret deoarture of a board director of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) one week before a senate inquiry is yet another clear sign it is operating as a “slush...
View ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleCommBank must rule out all new coal - not just Adani’s Carmichael mine
Sydney, 11 August 2017: Commonwealth Bank have become the 24th bank to rule out funding the controversial Adani mine, but need to show significantly more ambition and rule out all new coal funding in...
View ArticleFraud investigation yet another reason to keep Australian taxpayers’ money...
August 16, 2017: The Australian government must immediately rule out a taxpayer-funded loan to coal miner Adani after revelations the company is accused of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of millions...
View ArticleGreenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017: Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with...
View ArticlePublic backlash highlights CommBank’s toxic fossil fuel problem
Sydney, 23 June 2017: Community backlash against the Commonwealth Bank’s support of fossil fuels is now so severe that the bank has been forced to set up a special taskforce to handle customers...
View ArticleHuge iceberg breaks off Antarctic Peninsula Larsen C ice shelf
Amsterdam, 12 July 2017 - Responding to news that one of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf, Paul Johnston, head of Greenpeace...
View ArticlePoliticians left on the wrong side of history as Woolworths and Coles ban...
July 14, 2017: Greenpeace Australia Pacific welcomes today’s decision by Woolworths and Coles to completely phase out single-use plastic bags over the next 12 months.The supermarket giants today...
View ArticleProminent Australians’ open letter warns NAIF board against giving $1 billion...
August 10, 2017: Leaders from Australian business, industry, and academia have published an open letter in The Australian Financial Review calling for the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility...
View ArticleMore secret deals at NAIF show ‘slush fund’ must be dissolved
August 11, 2017: The secret deoarture of a board director of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) one week before a senate inquiry is yet another clear sign it is operating as a “slush...
View ArticleGreenpeace condemns APPCO practices
June 19, 2017: The practices and culture revealed during yesterday’s Sunday Night program appear to show company using the good name of charities to take advantage of the Australian public. The program...
View ArticleAustralians will see through Government hypocrisy on the Reef following...
6 July 2017: The Government has again avoided the embarrassment of an ‘in danger’ listing for the Great Barrier Reef following today’s UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision, but Australians will...
View ArticleCommBank must rule out all new coal - not just Adani’s Carmichael mine
Sydney, 11 August 2017: Commonwealth Bank have become the 24th bank to rule out funding the controversial Adani mine, but need to show significantly more ambition and rule out all new coal funding in...
View ArticleToxic water pollution demonstrates that even dead coal mines are dangerous
August 21, 2017: The contamination of Sydney’s drinking water catchment by millions of litres of highly toxic water from a decommissioned mine is yet another reason for the government to distance...
View ArticleThe world mourns Marshallese climate leader Tony de Brum
22 August 2017: Today the world mourns a fearless voice in the battle for global climate safety, Climate Ambassador and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum.“On...
View ArticleGreenpeace Responds to Harvard Study Revealing That Exxon Misled on Climate...
August 23, 2017, Washington, DC: In response to the peer-reviewed study from Harvard University that compares what Exxon privately knew about climate change with what the company said publicly,...
View ArticleGreenpeace study finds renewable energy will be cheapest electricity in G20...
Hamburg, 5 July 2017 – Wind energy and solar power will be the cheapest form of power generation in every G20 country by the year 2030 at the latest, a new Greenpeace Germany report has found.Ahead of...
View ArticleThe cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag - up to two billion...
July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 - 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even...
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